Head of Goods and Sales Food (m/f/d)

With external sales of around 12.24 billion euros and around 76,000 employees (including self-employed retailers and nearly 3,400 trainees), the EDEKA Minden-Hannover is the largest sales of a total of seven regional companies in the cooperatively organized EDEKA association. It has existed since 1920, extends from the Dutch to the Polish border and includes Bremen, Lower Saxony, a part of East Westfalen-Lippe, Saxony-Anhalt, Berlin and Brandenburg. More than three quarters of the nearly 1,500 markets are in the hands of around 640 independent EDEKA merchants. The group of companies includes several production plants, including the bread and baked goods production Schäfer's, the production for meat and sausage products peasantry and the traditional fish processing company Hagenah in Hamburg. EDEKA Minden-Hannover is committed to sustainability and climate protection. For over 100 years, responsible and sustainable action has been one of the basic principles of the company network.

Their focus is on the successful achievement of the corporate goals in terms of sales, earnings and costs. With a wide view, you can organize your assortment area, optimize processes and answer the strategic orientation. As a product and sales professional, you evaluate regional and national product and marketing topics. Cooperation with the retail, logistics and the various business areas is controlled by you, ensuring a good flow of information.

You have a commercial training (e.g. in retail or wholesale and foreign trade) or a comparable study. Thanks to your multi-year leadership experience as well as intensive insights into sales, you shape entrepreneurial thinking and acting. Your industry knowledge in food retailing will help you advance analytical, customer-oriented and decision-making topics. You are keen to get to know the EDEKA world intensively and bring with you the appropriate travel readiness (incl. driving licence class B). As a communications talent, you can inspire people to find solutions and use suitable moderation and presentation techniques.

You benefit from an attractive fee and special tariff payments, such as Christmas and holiday money. In addition, we offer you various social benefits, such as e.g. an occupational pension provision and our occupational health management. We have attractive working hours with 30 holiday days and a flexible 38.5-hour week. For even more flexibility and compatibility, you work in joint local and mobile coordination. For your commitment, in all participating markets of the EDEKA Minden-Hannover, you get 10% employee discount on your entire purchase. You work in a motivated team where professionalism, openness and trust determine everyday life. We support you in the reconciliation of work and family and we work with you to develop tailor-made solutions. Our EDEKA campus delights about 2,000 employees with flexible work places, short communication paths and an attractive operating restaurant. Not yet convinced?

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